Coach Ken Troutt was a high school athletic coach for 30 years and was the head basketball coach 27 years. Troutt led the Globe Tigers from 1952 to 1959 and celebrated the Class A State Basketball Championship in 1956. Troutt moved on to Phoenix Central and coached there form 1959 to 1983. Coach Troutt's Central Bobcats won 4 divisional championships. Coach was named the Divisional Coach of the Year twice. Troutt was an ACA member from 1951 to 1977. Coach Troutt's son, Kenneth, was inducted into the AHSACHOF in 2017 marking the first father/son duo to be honored in the same sport.